Tooth and Claw
What's a hundred years between friends, right? So the TARDIS wound up in 1879 instead of 1979, what of it? So what if instead of catching Ian Dury at the Top Rank, the Doctor and Rose caught Queen Victoria on the road to Aberdeen? Little things like destinations aren't important when you're the Doctor.
And besides, they can always catch Ian Dury, but right now, there's Queen Victoria. And if that weren't enough, an honest to goodness werewolf to contend with as well. And they save the day, save the Queen, save the Kingdom, even. Of course they do, how could it be any other way? But what do they get for their trouble? Knighted, sure, but then banished? And for what? For the colossal crime of being in the right place at the right time. It wasn't the Doctor that brought the werewolf, but it's the Doctor upon whom the Queen -- who may or may not be infected with the bizarre alien lycanthropy -- places the blame.
"I don’t know what you are," she pronounced, "the two of you, or where you’re from, but I know that you consort with stars - and magic - and think it fun. But your world is steeped in terror and blasphemy and death and I will not allow it! You will leave this shores and you will reflect, I hope, on how you managed to stray so far from all that is good. And how much longer you will survive this... terrible life. Now leave my world. And never return."
So they left. Back to the TARDIS, back to Milliways, back to the stars and the magic. Because where else do you go after a command like that? Ian Dury would just have to wait.
And besides, they can always catch Ian Dury, but right now, there's Queen Victoria. And if that weren't enough, an honest to goodness werewolf to contend with as well. And they save the day, save the Queen, save the Kingdom, even. Of course they do, how could it be any other way? But what do they get for their trouble? Knighted, sure, but then banished? And for what? For the colossal crime of being in the right place at the right time. It wasn't the Doctor that brought the werewolf, but it's the Doctor upon whom the Queen -- who may or may not be infected with the bizarre alien lycanthropy -- places the blame.
"I don’t know what you are," she pronounced, "the two of you, or where you’re from, but I know that you consort with stars - and magic - and think it fun. But your world is steeped in terror and blasphemy and death and I will not allow it! You will leave this shores and you will reflect, I hope, on how you managed to stray so far from all that is good. And how much longer you will survive this... terrible life. Now leave my world. And never return."
So they left. Back to the TARDIS, back to Milliways, back to the stars and the magic. Because where else do you go after a command like that? Ian Dury would just have to wait.